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Downtown
Morehead City
Revitalization
Association
PO Box F
Morehead City
North Carolina 28557
Phone (252) 808-0440
Fax (252) 808-0446
DMCRA Donation Structure
$1500
Millennium Partners
$1000
Century Partners
First
$500
Corporate Partners
$250
Business Partners
$150
Main Street Partners
$100
Community Partners
$50
Good Neighbor Partners
The
2005 Homes & Heritage Tour of the Promise' Land neighborhood
is presented by the DMCRA in conjunction with National Historic
Preservation Month. Each year this walking tour event will showcase
a different and interesting Morehead City neighborhood. Proceeds
from the tours will benefit DMCRA and vital beautification and landscaping
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The Bell Phillips House
On
May 16, 1898, the property on 105 South 11th Street was given to
Mrs. Julia W. Bell by the Carteret County Court Committee. On March
27, 1908, Mrs. Bell sold the property to Mr. J. D. Phillips for
a sum of $175.00. It was at this time that Mr. Phillips added the
second story to the house. In 1913 the house was sold to Mr. Joseph
Dixon for the sum of $2000.00. In 1925, he sold the house to Mr.
T. D. Webb for the sum of $2300.00.
The house became part of the Webb estate and was deeded to Mr. Winfield S. Webb Sr. and his wife Flora on June 19, 1931. The Webb family lived in the house until 1960. During these years, the house saw many changes. After the death of her husband, Flora Webb turned it into a boarding house where private citizens working on base at Cherry Point would stay with her. She was well known for her excellent cakes and pies, which she eventually sold at a shop near the house. Eventually Mrs. Flora Webb remarried, but the house remained solely in her name. Upon her death, the property was deeded to her sister-in-law Ethel Virginia Webb and her husband Purifoy Sample. In
1979, John J. and Jolene H. McCann bought the property. Mrs. McCann
started an upscale women's dress shop called
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The Calico House and the upstairs became a single
rental apartment. In 1986 Miss Louise Chatham bought the property,
continued running The Calico House and lived in the apartment upstairs.
In 1990 Ms. Ella Ruth King opened The Magnolia Tree Café, eventually becoming the owner of the property. The Café remained opened for more than a decade and was well known and loved. In 2002, my parents Keith and Sandra Kelley bought the property. My husband, Baptist Knaven and I moved here to help with restoring the house and to open it as a restaurant again. This proved to be a bigger undertaking than anyone expected. After two years of renovations, we have replaced the roof, foundation, two porches and everything in between. We restored the house to its former glory as much as was possible, saving all the original windows, interior doors and hard wood floors. We have run into some interesting artifacts during the process: antique Atlas Mason jars, newspapers from 1940, antiques clay marbles and a Mercury Dime from 1936 stuck between the floor boards. Today the building is open to the public as Café Zito, a Mediterranean bistro. http://www.cafezito.com
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